As you may have worked out by now, we love children’s books so I was thrilled to be asked to review a subscription box from The Happy Book Club this month. If you’ve not heard of The Happy Book Club before then read on to find out more about them and in particular this months box. I’ve also got one box which I am giving away to one lucky reader at the end of this post.
The Happy Book Club
The happy book club is a subscription service for little readers aged from birth to 7 years old. At the beginning of each month, they send out their subscription boxes which are themed each month. Each box contains age-appropriate books and activities. Each month a charity is also chosen based on the theme of the box and they receive a donation for every box sold.
There are two levels of subscription, The Happy Book Club subscription (1 book and suggested activities) and The Very Happy Book Club Subscription (2 books, a gift and suggested activities). Within each subscription, you can choose whether you would like a 1, 3, 6 or 12 month subscription. As well as which age range you would like to purchase 0-1, 2-4 and 5-7 years. Prices start from £7.99.
April’s box
This month’s theme is birds, perfect for spring. The chosen associated charity this month is RSPB who will receive 10% of this month’s profits.
I chose to receive the box aimed at children 2-4 years old since my girls are almost 5 and 2. In our box, we received 2 beautiful books, Pandora and The duckling gets a cookie? 2 bird gliders and a newsletter with ideas for further activities. This box retails at £12.99. You can find out more on their website.
We loved the two books we received. Pandora by Victoria Turnbull and The duckling gets a cookie? by Mo Willems. Pandora is a beautiful story about friendship and the environment. Pandora lives in a world of broken things (that she mends), where no one ever visits. Then one day a bird arrives with a broken wing. Pandora nurses the bird back to health and then something wonderful happens. The illustrations are simply beautiful too.
The duckling gets a cookie is a funny little book with cartoon-like illustrations. Duckling gets a cookie but pigeon is not happy as he feels he never gets what he wants. This is a great book for teaching children about asking politely for things they want.
After reading the book, it was time to open the gliders that were included in the box. My eldest had great fun colouring in and flying the bird gliders.
As well as the gliders, the newsletter suggested possible activities such as make a simple bird feeder with a pipe cleaner and some cheerios or go bird watching. We had a go at making bird feeders (we’d done this before at forest school) and we also made pretend birds nests.
Now it’s your turn to enter my giveaway where one lucky reader will get a 1 month The Happy Book Club subscription in May.
Disclosure: I was sent one The happy book club book package to review and I was also given another to giveaway to my readers. All photos, words and opinions are my own.
To my nephew
To my daughter thank you x
my little girl x
Those books look great! My boys would love the gliders too.
to my daughter x
My son Jeremiah
I would give the box to my niece, she loves books.
my 2 kids
To our new born baby connor
My little boy, Eli is a huge bookworm so he’d love this
My youngest #triedtested
My daughter would love this
For a BookBairn! x
This would be for my son who is a little bookworkm already
I’d give this to my son
My cousins kids
My daughter would love this
My youngest daughter Pippa would love this x
i would give this to my son x
My little grandson Thanks for the chance to win some
my granddaughter ava blossom
My daughter and her nephews
To my daughter
Would give to my grandson as he is the perfect age
My niece
id give this to my nephew
This would be great for my nephew.
This subscription box would be perfect for my granddaughter who loves books.
Who would you give this box to?
my grandson Sam
My little nephew
my 2 boys
To my 3 year old daughter!
It would be for our youngest. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
my two little ones would adore this book. it looks great x
Would give it to youngest grandson, he would love it and possibly keep him quiet
A friends first child
I’d give the box to my daughter, she’d love it! 🙂
I would give this to my son, he’d love it!
My daughter.
Amelia
My daughter Noelle x
my youngest granddaughter
To my nephew to encourage his mum to read with him. My daughter is a real bookworm and he loves books to but his mum isn’t a big reader and whenever we read with and to him you can see the joy so would love to gift this to him.
My son would love this.
My son – he’d love it!
I would give it to my nephew <3
What gorgeous looking books – and so lovely to be able to create related activities too!
Thanks for sharing your review on #TriedTested this week x
my daughter lyla
My daughter!
My Granddaughter Maisy, she loves reading and creating so this is just perfect for her.
To my niece x
I’d give it to my little niece
My lovely eldest!
I’d give the box to my little boy. He’d love it.
I would share it between my 2 year old Lexie and my 8 year old Hallie-Anne
I would give this to my daughter. She would love it.
my daughter would totally love this x
I would love to win this for my niece. Thanks for the competition.
I would give this to my son who is a little bookworm.